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holiday house, vacation home, villa; prison, jail

to collapse, to crumble; to get out of shape, to lose one's shape, to become disorganized, to become untidy; to break down, to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market), to slump, to decline; to break money into small change; to turn bad (e.g. weather), to change for the worse, to deteriorate

tray; family, household; Obon, Bon Festival, Lantern Festival, Festival of the Dead; gambler's den

criterion, standard, yardstick, reference, aim; rough estimate, approximation

government official

evening edition (of a daily newspaper), evening paper

advantages and disadvantages, interests (of parties)

to pin down, to hold down, to press down, to hold in place, to hold steady; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand), to clutch (a body part in pain), to press (a body part); to get a hold of, to obtain, to seize, to catch, to arrest; to grasp (a point), to comprehend; to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to repress, to hold back, to check, to curb, to contain

successively, one after another

aquatic products, fisheries

dwelling, house, residence, address

expansion

(relative) length; advantages and disadvantages, pluses and minuses, strong and weak points, merits and demerits

firing (esp. a rocket or missile), launching, shooting, discharge, catapult; ejaculation

lava

water well

more or less, though not quite satisfactorily, after a fashion, pretty much, roughly, so far as it goes, technically; tentatively, for the time being; just in case; once

(practical) application, putting to practical use; applied (e.g. physics, linguistics, research)

grace, favor, favour, blessing, benefit

acceleration, speeding up

angle